Can Biden’s Justice40 plan deliver a fairer environment for people of color?

Administration is pledging to route 40% of the benefits of climate and environment spending to disadvantaged communities, but getting it right will be difficult

Indigenous farmers in the Isleta Pueblo, south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, have long relied on crops of corn and green chiles fed by the Rio Grande river, but amid a water crisis in the western US they are facing warnings to skip planting crops entirely -which could be devastating for the community's 2,500 residents.

But a new national program could help those farmers and other disadvantaged communities. Introduced earlier this year by Joe Biden, the Justice40" plan would steer 40% of the benefits of federal environmental investments to people most in need.